Graphic Designer

Responsibilities

• You’ll help shape and execute Allied Maker’s visual language across:
• Brand identity and visual systems
• Catalogs, lookbooks, brochures, and editorial pieces
• Product launches and collection presentations
• Website and digital design
• Social and campaign creative
• Invitations, events, exhibitions, and special projects
• Sales presentations and client-facing materials
• Packaging and printed collateral
• Showroom, factory, and environmental graphics
• Image layouts, typography, retouching, and art direction support
• Some projects will be highly considered and conceptual. Others will need to be beautiful, accurate, and out the door today. You should be comfortable with both.

Requirements

• Your portfolio should demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of typography, grids, hierarchy, proportion, composition, image-making, and visual systems.
• We are drawn to designers whose work feels considered rather than decorated; people who understand that the smallest typographic or compositional decision can change the entire character of a piece.

You are

• Exceptional with typography
• Highly sensitive to proportion, spacing, hierarchy, and composition

Fluent in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

• Able to take a strong creative direction and elevate it through execution
• Comfortable generating multiple intelligent design solutions
• Fast without becoming careless

Extremely detail-oriented

• Comfortable preparing production-ready files for printers, fabricators, and vendors
• Interested in architecture, interiors, furniture, fashion, art, publishing, or industrial design
• Capable of moving between conceptual brand work and everyday design production

Collaborative, curious, self-directed, and low-ego

Experience with Figma, motion, photography, video, rendering, or web design is a plus, but exceptional graphic design fundamentals matter more to us than a long software list.

The Aesthetic

Our visual world is architectural, intelligent, refined, material, modern, and enduring.

We value designers with a strong foundation in Swiss and modernist typography, editorial design, identity systems, visual research, and concept-driven communication, while still possessing a contemporary point of view.

We are not interested in trend-driven graphics, gratuitous effects, or design that exists simply to attract attention.

We care about the things that are harder to teach: judgment, restraint, rhythm, editing, curiosity, and knowing when something is finished.

Experience

We are intentionally open to exceptional early-career talent.

Recent graduates and alumni of rigorous art and design programs are strongly encouraged to apply. Professional experience is welcome, but we care more about the intelligence and quality of the work than the number of years on your résumé.

Your portfolio is the most important part of your application.

Please send

• Portfolio
• Résumé

Current location

Earliest available start date

Whether you are seeking freelance, contract-to-hire, or full-time work

Compensation expectations

• We are hiring immediately.
• We would especially like to see work demonstrating typography, editorial design, identity systems, print, art direction, and the sophisticated presentation of photography, objects, or architecture.

Salary Range Annually

• $75,000
• $85,000 USD